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...pupils. Said he: "It is no longer as pleasant or easy to live in Cambridge as in many other university communities." A placid suburb 25 years ago, Cambridge is now a bustling city of 125,000, circling the university in a tight-clenched grip. Pleasant residences have steadily grown scarcer, more expensive...
...John W. Mackay-father of Postal Telegraph's Clarence Mackay. In 1907 a fall of rock disclosed a $1,000,000 pocket of gold and silver. In 1912 another $1,250,000 pocket was found 2,500 ft. underground. But the Comstock's surprises have been growing scarcer, Virginia City more & more depopulated...
With Depression, Yellowstone tourists have grown fewer, hotel scraps scarcer, bears hungrier. In Washington last week Director Horace Marden Albright announced that the National Park Service had been forced to kill 49 Yellowstone black bears, one grizzly during last summer and autumn...
...obscurity to hop oceans, Editor Grey reveals a story: Few years ago Hinkler financed the building of a new small tandem-engined amphibian named the "Ibis," with funds made from his Australia flight. Unable to interest British capital he came to the U. S. in 1930. found capital even scarcer. Then a plan to make money, or attract backers, by a spectacular flight in a Lockheed fell through. Finally he drew from his small balance of life savings, bought the Puss Moth in Canada, got enough odd jobs in Toronto and New York to pay for the keep of himself...
...signature" of his broadcasts) amounted to $1,600. It was consequently clear that Morton Downey had been the outstanding success of the radio season which, last week, had begun to draw in its antennae for the summer when static, storms and holidays make new attractions scarcer...